Metallic tag strip



July 2 !:1931.

. W. J. PANNIER. JR

METALLIC TAG STRIP Filed July 7. 1930 'A TORNEY Patented July 21, 1931 UNHTED STATES WILLIAM J. PANNIER, JR, or PITTSBURGH; PENNSYLVANIA, ass-xenon o rannrnn BROTHERS STAMP COMPANY, or PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA METALLIC TAG STRIP Application filed July 7,

My invention refers to improvements in metallic tag strips and in the method of making the same of the general class disclosed in prior patent of O. M. Pannier No. 1,7 54,884.

The present improvement relates to manufacture of a tag strip having certain advantages of economy of manufacture, facility for use, and particularly in the ease and rapidity of separation of the indivdual tag from the series strip.

In the manufacture of such improved tags or tag strips, of sheet metal, as zinc or the like, and with due regard to any preferred arrangement of the grain of the metal in the strip blank, it is made in strip form of suitable width, with periodical edge incisions, and transversev registering openings, effecting weakening of the metal for ease and complete severance, while at the same time maintaining ample longitudinal strength to permit of the strains and operation of winding upon a spool, drum or coil, for commericial use.

The construction also provides for easy reverse folding of the individual tags upon adjacent tags in alternating arrangement, for compactness in storage, shipment, or use.

In the drawings, showing somewhat enlarged preferred embodiments of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a face view of'a portion of a continuous blank strip;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the strip provide-d with the edge notches and the corresponding transverse openings;

Fig. 3 is a similar View of one of the tags, detached;

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line IVIV of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional View on the line VV of Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a view like Fig. 2, showing a modified form of construction;

Fig. 7 is a view like Fig. 3, showing such form of tag, detached.

In the drawings, 2 represents the strip blank, of suitable width and thickness, and of any practically available or usable length, adapting it to be commercially used.

1930. Serial no. 466,164.

The strip 2 may be severed from a larger sheet of zinc or the like, or may be originally rolled'in a continuous strip of proper or desirable dimensions, and is thereafter pro"- vided with the severing weakening features, as shown.

For such purpose, the strip is provided with inwardly extending notches or cut-out portions 3 of V form, at opposite sides, of the blank and at predetermined distances apart longitudinally, defining the length of the resulting tagwhen severed.

Midway of the width of the blank 2, and in transverse register with the notches 3, the blank is punched out or otherwise acted upon so as to remove a material portion of the metal, as at 4- When so removed, the remaining portion of the metal consists of the comparatively narrow connecting solid portions 5, at each side of the transverse slot 4 and extending therefrom to the innermost terminal of the notches 3, and of comparatively limited. cross section, as indicated in Fig. 5.

When thus treated, each individual tag may be readily broken from the adjacent tag section, by one or more slight bending operations, the resulting tag then existing as a unit A, as in Fig. 3.

In such form, the is provided with the beveled or rounded corners 3a and the endmost recesses 4a, between the slightly projecting severed terminals at each side thereof,

which project outwardly about one-half of the width of each slot 4.

The ease and facility of thus severing the unitary tags is due to the greatly reduced transverse strength of the metal and its facility for bending exactly on the transverse line VV of Fig. 2, the cut-out slot 4 removing the major intervening portion of metal, thus rendering the operation practicable, rapid,- andconsistently the same in each resulting tag.

I show in Figs. 6 and 7 a modified construction of the tag strip and the severed tag respectively. In such form the slot 4b is gen erally similar to that shown in the main figures of the drawing, but modified to avoid any projecting points or sharp edges. For

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such purpose the ends of the slot are in rounded V form, as at 6, approximating the opposite edge notch 3.

When the tag is broken across its thus weakened section the ends will present the outer rounded corners 3a and corresponding inner rounded edges 3?) with the intervenlng substantially straight broken-off ends 5a. By such arrangement the ends of the tag are rendered continuously smooth and even, avoiding any risk of lacerating or scratching the hands of the operator or user.

It will be understood that the dimensions of the metal strip to a degree will control or regulate the width'of the slot and the depth Also, that the relative proportions of any of the parts or features are somewhat dependent upon the dimensions, strength, stiffness or other qualitics of the blank utilized, but all such changes are understood to be within the skill of a competent mechanic or maker of the device, and to be included as within the scope of the following claims.

What I claim is:

1. The method of making metallic tags of a comparatively soft strip of metal consisting in weakening the strip transversely by oppositely located notches, and entirely removing a port-ion of the strip in tranverse register therewith to form inner reversely disposed V-shaped notches whereby to weaken the strip sufiiciently to permit of subsequent ready subdivision into separate tags on such defined lines of weakness while preserving sufficient of the metal to permit winding of the strip.

2. A metallic tag strip comprising a length of relatively soft sheet metal of uniformwidth provided with transversely arranged rounded end slots between the outer edges of the strip and having its edges notched at opposite sides in register therewith, with an in tervening comparatively limited integral section between said notches and each slot.

3. A metallic tag strip comprising a length of relatively soft sheet metal of uniform width provided with transversely arranged slots between the outer edges of the strip, said slots terminating in reversely disposed V shaped ends, the edges of the strip being notched at opposite sides in register therewith with an intervening comparatively limited integral section between said outer notches and each slot.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

W'ILLIAM J. PANNIER, JR. 

